Greco-Persian Wars Comic Strip
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- Persian Empire had been on the rise
- Greek kingdoms reach a golden age
- Cyrus appoints tyrants to rule Ionia
- The Persian Empire, which originated in what is now Iran, conquered many powerful neighbors before going to the west. They overthrew the Neo-Babylonian Empire to control most of Mesopotamia.
- Greek rebellions across Asia Minor
- Greece entered a golden age where philosophy, art, and Greek culture flourished. Philosophers lay the foundations for modern Western Philosophy, and Greek Kingdoms were introducing a new form of government called a democracy which is still used today. This Greek culture spread to the east, which is called Hellenism.
- Darius squashes the Ionian revolts
- The Persian ruler Cyrus the Great moved west to Asia Minor conquer the Ionians. He chose Persian tyrants to rule over these regions and expand further with the help of the Persian Empire.
- Persian plan to crush all of Greece
- Aristagoras was fired from his position, and he incited a Greek rebellion against the Persian Empire out of anger. This was the Ionian Revolt, and the Greeks got support from Athens. They burned the Persian capital of Sardis, which angered the Persian kind Darius the Great.
- Darius the Great sent in forces to end the revolt and attacked the center of the revolt in Miletus and destroyed the Greek rebel forces at the Battle of Lade. The rebellion collapsed with this battle. Historians consider these Ionian Revolts as the first stage of the Greco-Persian Wars.
- Darius wanted to punish all Greeks and the Athens in particular fir the Ionian revolts. In 492BC Darius led the first Persian invasions of Greece. He did this for revenge and to expand the Persian Empire. He asked all of the city-states to surrender without a fight, and only Sparta and Athens refused to surrender.
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